Marisa Miladinovic
Room: 205 3/31/09
Social Studies
Page: 595 (1-5)
1. Identify: Booker T. Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death. Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel. Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism. Paul Laurence was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
2. Define: Land-Grant College - A U.S. college or university (land-grant university) entitled to support from the federal government under the provisions of the Morrill Acts. YellowJournalism - Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers. Realism - Interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc. Regionalism - The principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions. Ragtime - Rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation. Vaudeville - Theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
Room: 205 3/31/09
Social Studies
Page: 595 (1-5)
1. Identify:
Booker T. Washington was an American educator, orator, author and the dominant leader of the African-American community nationwide from the 1890s to his death.
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-born American industrialist, businessman, and a major philanthropist. He was an immigrant as a child with his parents. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel.
Joseph Pulitzer was a Hungarian-American publisher best known for posthumously establishing the Pulitzer Prizes and (along with William Randolph Hearst) for originating yellow journalism.
Paul Laurence was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Mary Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists.
2. Define:
Land-Grant College - A U.S. college or university (land-grant university) entitled to support from the federal government under the provisions of the Morrill Acts.
Yellow Journalism - Journalism that exploits, distorts, or exaggerates the news to create sensations and attract readers.
Realism - Interest in or concern for the actual or real, as distinguished from the abstract, speculative, etc.
Regionalism - The principle or system of dividing a city, state, etc., into separate administrative regions.
Ragtime - Rhythm in which the accompaniment is strict two-four time and the melody, with improvised embellishments, is in steady syncopation.
Vaudeville - Theatrical entertainment consisting of a number of individual performances, acts, or mixed numbers, as by comedians, singers, dancers, acrobats, and magicians.
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